The Big Blue

The Big Blue released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu is a 1988 Englishlanguage film in the French Cinma du look visual style, made by French director Luc Besson. The film is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century Jacques Mayol played by JeanMarc Barr and Enzo Maiorca renamed to Enzo Molinari and played by Jean Reno, and Mayols fictionalized relationship with his girlfriend Johana Baker played by Rosanna Arquette.

Two children, Jacques Mayol JeanMarc Barr and Enzo Molinari Jean Reno, have grown up on the Greek island of Amorgos in the 1960s. They challenge each other to collect a coin on the sea floor and Jacques loses. Later Jacques father who harvests shellfish from the seabed using a pumpsupplied air hose and helmet goes diving for shellfish. His breathing apparatus and rope gets caught and punctured by rocks on the reef and weighed down by water, he drowns. Jacques and Enzo can do nothing but watch in horror as he is killed.By the 1980s, both are well known freedivers, swimmers who can remain underwater for great times and at great depths. Enzo is on Sicily now, where he rescues a trapped diver from a shipwreck. He is a world champion freediver with a brash and strong personality, and now wishes to find Mayol and persuade him to return to no limits freediving in order to prove he is still the better of the two, in a friendly sports rivalry. Mayol himself works extensively with scientific research as a human research subject, and with dolphins, and is temporarily participating in research into human physiology in the icedover lakes of the Peruvian Andes, where his remarkable and dolphinlike bodily responses to cold water immersion are being recorded. Insurance broker Johana Baker Rosanna Arquette visits the station for work purposes and is introduced to Jacques. She secretly falls in love with him. When she hears that Jacques will be at the World Diving Championships in Taormina, Sicily, she fabricates an insurance problem that requires her presence there, in order to meet him again. She and Jacques fall in love. However none of them realize the extent of Jaques allurement with the depths. Jacques beats Enzo byfeetmeter at this, their first competition and Enzo offers them a glass dolphin as a gift, and a tape measure to show the small difference between Jacques and Enzos records. Johana goes back home to New York but is fired after her deception is discovered she

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